Abstract
This paper examines the experience of spaciousness in elevated consciousness as discussed or expressed by spiritual practitioners, poets, and fiction writers with a focus on the heavens as a corollary or mirror of internal states, including Shunryu Suzuki, Sappho, Dante, Nevit O. Ergin, Rumi, and Jim Harrison. Issues addressed include: the mind and sky interrelationship (axis mundi and mystical mind/body division); big mind and spaciousness (mystical experience); objectivity and subjectivity (positioning the psyche in transpersonal experience where religious imagery is apparently accentuated); the issue of other minds (in relation to transpersonal experience and ethics); the figuration of light as a universal archetype (including a recent revision of Einstein’s E = MC2); and the essence of transpersonal experience (a character in a Jim Harrison novel compares his awe at stars “close to what others felt was their religion”). The nature of our psyche may be predisposed to such states where the ethical and the aesthetic manifest themselves.
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